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‘Ugly Betty’s’ America Ferrera Dons Badge in ‘End of Watch’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 17, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs, America Ferrera and her large family lived far away from the crime-infested wretchedness of the inner city. Yet the petite Latina was keenly aware of the racial tensions that existed in the City of Angels. Though [...]

Billy Burke and the ‘Revolution’

News TV Features By Judy Sloane|September 13, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Billy Burke has been acting since 1990, and has appeared in a plethora of TV shows such as “Rizzoli & Isles,” “The Closer” and “24,” and movies like “Ladder 49,” “Fracture” and as Charlie Swan, B [...]

A ‘Liberal’ Discussion with Elizabeth Olsen

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 11, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON HOLLYWOOD—Following her star-making turn last year in the psychological thriller “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” and subsequent worthwhile performances this year in the horror thriller “Silent House” and the psychological thriller “Red Lights,” Elizabeth Olsen returns to the big scre [...]

An Un’Holy’ Version of Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ Controversy

DVD Features By Angela Dawson|September 4, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features In 1979, the members of the irreverent Monty Python comedy troupe released their most outrageous and controversial movie, “The Life of Brian.” Loosely based on the life of Christ—it was ostensibly about another child born in Israel around the same time as Jesus [...]

Bradley Cooper Finds The Right ‘Words’

Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 4, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hunky actor Bradley Cooper is self-confident, self-deprecating and can handle almost any question thrown at him except one: What’s it like to be called ‘The Sexiest Man Alive,’ as he was designated in 2011 by People magazine. The typically quick-witte [...]

Teen pop star Austin Mahone debuts on Chase Records

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 30, 2012 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Report Move over Justin Bieber. The newest teen hearthrob is 16-year-old Austin Mahone. The rising young pop singer is the first music artist on Chase Records, which has entered a deal with Universal Music. Chase Records, founded by Rocco Valdes, Michael Blumstein, [...]

Kenneth Branagh Reprises Swedish Detective Role in ‘Wallander’ – 3 Photos

TV Features By Peter Gonzaga|August 30, 2012 |0

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Kenneth Branagh Reprises Swedish Detective Role in ‘Wallander’

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|August 27, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kenneth Branagh returns for a third season of “Wallander,” in which the acclaimed British actor and recently inducted knight plays a brooding Swedish police detective. The Oscar nominee recently spoke at the Television Critics Association Summer Press [...]

Nick Cave Discusses ‘Lawless’ Words and Music

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 27, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Musician/writer Nick Cave’s image may be that of a sometimes intensely grim performer who has fronted the Bad Seeds since the 1980s, released a 1996 album titled “Murder Ballads” and was described as a “harbinger of the gothic p [...]

‘Twilight’s” Ashley Greene Flees Ghosts in ‘Apparition’ and Sizzles in ‘Butter’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 22, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ashley Greene soared to international fame as part of the “Twilight” cast. She has played the likable Alice in all three vampire films that have become a pop culture phenomenon and reprises her role one more time in the upcoming “The Twilight Saga: Br [...]